Left-wing group secured $158 million taxpayer-funded contract to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation
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The Vera Institute of Justice, a progressive nonprofit, receives hefty taxpayer-backed federal contracts to help illegal immigrants sidestep deportation.
"The Vera Institute of Justice is a behemoth progressive nonprofit based out of New York City with well over a $140 million budget, which they use to fund a slate of progressive causes and initiatives across the country," Jason Hopkins, an investigative associate with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, told Fox News. "Whether that be criminal justice reform, bail reform and also immigration."
Hopkins said the institute gets around half of its funding from the federal government. In fact, between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020, nearly $137 million of the group's $174 million in revenue came from government grants, the institute's most recent tax forms show.